Example sentences of "him about a " in BNC.
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1 | In making a decision on the first of the three cases cited , the Commissioner communicated with the Chief Executive of the National Health Service Management Executive , asking him about a health authority 's duty to provide continuing nursing care which is assessed as being needed , and which is not otherwise available . |
2 | Peter Verkhovensky is telling him about a religious conversation among some army officers . |
3 | ‘ Sulaiman put his case as to why we should fight Tucker first , and I put mine to him about a voluntary defence , and he replied that if that was Lennox 's wish , the WBC would do all in their power to grant it . ’ |
4 | At the end of April 1973 I went to see the King of Morocco to tell him about a plot to kill him . |
5 | ‘ I clearly got up his nose when I asked him about a report which disputed his status as a big box-office draw , ’ says Barry . |
6 | Howard wakes up in hospital with two people waiting to question him about a robbery and a dead body . |
7 | In 1965 , his friend Roman Polanski started telling him about a beautiful French girl that ‘ I would be mad for . |
8 | And though , by a well-established convention , Members do not ask Ministers questions about the day-to-day conduct of the industries ' affairs , since that is by definition not government business , they may very well ask him about a matter that most certainly is : about the appointments Ministers make to the boards of nationalised industries . |
9 | In J.F. Campbell 's Popular Tales of the West Highlands ( XXVIII ) there is the story of The Smith and The Fairies which the Rev. Thomas Pattieson told him about a MacEachern at Crosbrig . |
10 | He led them into the kitchen , chatting to Blanche and Dexter as if they were house guests rather than police officers who had come to interview him about a murder . |
11 | But you see , I just went to the education officer and I say , he , he ran it , he , it , it was , it was his responsibility the Guild 's were and I went to him about a Guild matter and I said oh , erm how I mentioned that I was working and he said well where are you working ? |
12 | ‘ I 'm going to see him about a play I have written . ’ |
13 | What I did n't mention to him was Gilbert 's phone call where he said she rang him on Saturday evening and asked him about a box . ’ |
14 | Pry now asks you to advise him about a house he wants to buy . |
15 | He remembered a Chinese fable Ellen had once told him about a man who falls off a cliff , saves himself by clutching at a plant , and then notices that two mice are gnawing away the branch on which his life depends . |
16 | ‘ In your brother 's papers there is mention of something your father told him about a year ago which greatly surprised and puzzled him . |
17 | On one of his visits to Beckenham , Pearson told him about a little girl neighbour , a Downs Syndrome child , who loved seeing Kenneth Williams in films or on television . |
18 | On the other hand , talk to him about a book — like one that Gordon Jackson lent him — and he would go overboard about it . ’ |
19 | Ken particularly liked the story Orton told him about a man he had picked up in a lavatory and asked him if he did it often . |
20 | Ken told him about a trip he had made to Spain with a friend whom he called ‘ Milicent ’ . |
21 | Later Nutmeg went back to all his friends ( looking himself again ) + they all told him about a strange white cat who called himself Nutmeg . |
22 | Cos I 've seen him about a lot . |
23 | Just slap him about a bit . |